They simply did not count.

He took charge absolutely." As I gathered, the eight members sat four on each side of a long table, with the Speaker at the head.

The Irish leaders were on his right and left, and the discussion was chiefly between them.
It turned mainly on the question of the area to be excluded.

Enormous trouble had been taken, and Redmond told me later that a great map in relief had been constructed, showing the distribution of Protestant and Catholic population.

This brought out with astonishing vividness the contrast: the Catholics were on the mountains and hill-tops, the Protestants down along the valley lands.
Nothing could be more cordial, Redmond said, than Sir Edward Carson's manner to him.